If you are diagnose with polycystic kidney disease or your family member or
friend who has, you may find many question when live with him or her. Living
with polycystic kidney disease, you need manage well with diet, treatment,
exercise and lifestyle.
Diet
If you live in a PKD family, an appropriate diet management is suggested,
especially for the one who is with the disease. You should avoid the salty food,
including junk food, processed food and fast food. Too much protein foods will
overburden your polycystic kidneys and you can choose proper quantity of lean
beef, chicken, fish etc. When renal cysts affect your kidneys working ability,
your kidneys hardly cleanse out the extra water in your body, thereby, you’d
better have a talk with your doctor about the water intake volume.
Treatment
Many treatments claims work for Polycystic Kidney Disease, but not everyone
is a proper therapy for you. Surgery is used when there is extremely large cyst
or the cyst causes your extreme pain. However, if there are multiple large cysts
in your kidneys, you are not suggested with surgery for repeated operations will
cause kidney functions decline.
Chinese herbal medicine is used to shrink your renal cysts and improve kidney
functions naturally. This therapy can prevent the further function decline and
avoid kidney failure.
If you have stepped into kidney failure stage, Immunotherapy are recommended
to generate new cells to develop kidney functions. Meantime, Chinese herbal
medicine can provide a better environment for new cells to grow up.
If your kidney functions are less than 15%, your doctor may suggest dialysis
to help remove the toxins in your body. At the same time, you can add other
treatments to shrink renal cysts and improve kidney functions, so that you can
get rid of dialysis gradually. Dialysis only is not a wise decision for PKD
patients.
Exercise
Mild exercise helps retard the development of the disease and alleviate the
symptoms of PKD. You’d better take 30 min mild exercises 5 days out of one
week.
Life style
To avoid the cyst rupture, you should use hammock instead of tighten waist
belt. Constipation and lifting heavy thing by bending down is dangerous for your
enlarged cysts.
A health provides team can help control your renal cyst and manage well your
life. With the development of Chinese herbal medicine, PKD can be controlled
well and lead to a normal life for patients. If any help, you can ask free help
from our online experts.
